15 NEW NAMES for Graspop 2017



A new year, new names for the five stages at Graspop Metal Meeting 2017. Joining the bill for the 22nd edition are: A Day to Remember, Amenra, Architects, Brides of Lucifer, Crown The Empire, Every Time I Die, Gojira, King’s X, Like A Storm, Mastodon, MAX & IGGOR CAVALERA – RETURN TO THE ROOTS, Metal Church, Sabaton, Touché Amoré en W.A.S.P. Rammstein, Deep Purple and Evanescence have already been announced as the headliners.
In 2017, Graspop Metal Meeting premiers a new diabolical super group: Brides Of Lucifer, a remarkable collaboration between the Kolacny brothers (Scala), Koen Buyse (Zornik) and Ives Mergaerts. A metal band fronted by 20 women – an almighty clash between driving guitars and blood curdling vocals. Or, in other words: Scala goes metal!
Graspop Metal Meeting is also proud to add Brazilian metal legends Max and Iggor Cavalera to the line-up with their RETURN TO ROOTS tour. The brothers are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the legendary Sepultura album ‘Roots’, to be played in its entirety on Saturday June 17 in the Marquee!
On Sunday 18 June – closing the festival with violently explosive guitars, flashing shades, thundering drums, addictive melodies and a two-ton tank – is: Sabaton! Out-and-out audience favourites at the Graspop Metal Meeting. It’s their sixth appearance on stage in Dessel. If you’re a fan, get dressed for the occasion, because it’s your last chance to see Sweden’s warriors Sabaton before their long and well-earned sabbat(on)ical from concert stages in Europe.
The bill is filling nicely for Graspop Metal Meeting 2017. It’s about rock; it’s about roar. A weekend of blistering guitars, big bad drums and deep grunting. 82 great names have already been confirmed. More to come soon.

Check out the official site for more information:
http://www.graspop.be/

SOBER THURSDAY on DONG 2017



Our friends of the DONG Open Air have news: 😉
We continue to try and make your improvement suggestions happen as we plan each new Dong Open Air. The online visitor poll revealed to us that we appear to have missed out on a great gastronomical trend! If you think about it, it doesn’t really come as a surprise that the soccer culture sets yet another trend.

We are talking of non-alcoholic beer, near-beer! We are happy to serve your best interest as you requested and are happy to announce that we will not only start to serve non-alcoholic beer in general, but take it a step further to make Dong Thursday a sober day: We will only serve soft drinks and near-beer.
Non-alcoholic beer has come a long way in terms of taste and your arguments in regards of avoiding excessive consumption, or keeping it quiet during night hours have convinced us.
Many things that happen on a festival only take place because people are inebriated. In times like these with constant surveillance (we’re talking facebook facial recognition), you should think twice about presenting yourself (half) naked or showing facets that might suggest you were temporarily a bit full (of yourself).

In order to underline the wholeheartedness with which we are approaching our endeavour, we are going to release our first, exclusive festival beer, which contains 0.0% alcohol. Our “Double-Zero-Dong” will only be available at the Dong Open Air and it will be the first official festival beer of Mount Moshmore!
We are going document the production of this beer for you so we can keep you up to date in the weeks and months before the festival.

We are looking forward to drinking with your on our festival Thursday!
Cheers,
Your Dong Team

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Early bird Dong tickets



Our friends of the DONG Open Air have news:

A whole lot of you seemed to have gotten your tickets since we announced our most recent line up additions. If this continues, the early bird tickets will be gone by the end of next week!
Get your tickets now, while you can still get your hands on the discounted ones!
Weird Times Call for Rock’n’Roll,
Your Dong Team

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